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J. CURTIS.

I Carriage-Step Cover. No. 84,802. Patented Dec. 8,1868.

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JOHN CURTIS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 84,802, dated December 8,. 1868.

STEP-COVER AND WHEEL-FENDER FOR GARRIA G-ES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and maln'ng part of the same.

' a person entering or leaving the vehicle, when the door is open for that purpose, and, when the door is closed, serving to protect the step from mud and dust; and My invention consists in a herein-described arrangement of parts whose sole attachment is to the carriage door.

Figure l is a perspective view, representing the door closed.

Figure 2 represents thedoor open.

Figure 3 is a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, of the door-step and cover in their closed condition.

A represents'a portion of a carriage-body, B and 0 being respectively the rear and fore wheels on that side.

D is a door, and

E, a step, of ordinary construction.

My improved guard or cover consists essentially of a bracket, F, which depends rigidly from the lower edge of the door, and has hinged or otherwise flexibly connected to its lower edge a flap, G,which, when the door is open, hangs down, as represented in fig. 2, and

serves, in conjunction with the bracket F, to protect the clothes of any one entering the carriage, or alighting therefrom, from being soiled by contacfivith the 7 rear wheel.

'When the door is closed, the flap G rests upon the step, as shown in figs. 1 and 3, and prevents the accumulation thereon of mud and dust.

In order to both hold the flap firmly tothe step and prevent rattling, I provide, on the under side of said flap, springsH, and above said flap I provide a rubber lip, I, which, when the door is closed, presses upon the top of the said flap.

I do not, however, confine myself to the precise de vices here described, as, for instance, I may, in some cases, use rollers instead ofthe springs H, and springs instead of the rubber lip I. i I

The. bracket F-may be a metallic plate or framework, either c0vered,plated, or painted, and made of any form found to answer the required purpose. It-

may be provided with an interior webbing. or panel, f.

I claim herein as new, and of. my invention- The bracket F, depending rigidly from the carriagedoor, in combination with the hinged flap G,arranged and adapted to operate in conjunction with a carriage step, in .the manner and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

. JOHN CURTIS.

Witnesses:

' Gno. H. KNIGHT,

Jmnns H. LAYMAIN. 

